Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SAP, v.t. [Fr. saper; It. zappare; Arm. sappa; It. zappa, a spade; zappone, a mattock. The primary sense is probably to dig or to thrust.]

1. To undermine; to subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine. Their dwellings were sapp'd by floods. – Dryden.
2. To undermine; to subvert by removing the foundation of. Discontent saps the foundation of happiness. Intrigue and corruption sap the constitution of a free government.

SAP'A-JO, n.

The sapajos form a division of the genus Simia, including such of the monkeys of America as have prehensile tails. – Encyc.

SAP'-COL-OR, n.

An expressed vegetable juice inspissated by slow evaporation, for the use of painters, as sap-green, &c. – Parke.

SAP'ID, a. [L. sapidus, from sapio, to taste.]

Tasteful; tastable; having the power of affecting the organs of taste; as sapid water. – Brown. Arbuthnot.

SAP-ID'I-TY, or SAP'ID-NESS, a.

Taste; tastefulness; savor; the quality of affecting the organs of taste; as, the sapidness of water or fruit. – Boyle.

SA'PI-ENCE, n. [Fr. from L. sapientia, from sapio, to taste, to know.]

Wisdom; sageness; knowledge. Still has gratitude and sapience / To spare the folks that give him ha'pence. – Swift.

SA'PI-ENT, a.

Wise; sage; discerning. There the sapient king held dalliance. – Milton.

SA-PI-EN'TIAL, a.

Affording wisdom or instructions for wisdom. [Not much used.] – Bp. Richardson.

SA'PI-ENT-LY, adv.

Wisely; sagaciously.

SAP'LESS, a. [from sap.]

1. Destitute of sap; as, a sapless tree or branch. – Swift. Shak.
2. Dry; old; husky; as, a sapless usurer. – Dryden.

SAP'LING, n. [from sap.]

A young tree. Nurse the saplings tall. – Milton.

SAP-O-NA'CEOUS, a. [from L. sapo, soap.]

Soapy; resembling soap; having the qualities of soap. Saponaceous bodies are compounds of an acid and a base, and are in reality a kind of salt.

SAP'O-NA-RY, a.

Saponaceous.

SA-PON-IF-IC-A'TION, n.

Conversion into soap.

SA-PON'I-FI-ED, pp.

Converted into soap.

SA-PON-I-FY, v.t. [L. sapo, soap, and facio, to make.]

To convert into soap. – Ure.

SAP'O-NIN, n.

A peculiar substance from the root of Saponaria officinalis. It is the cause of the lather which the root forms with water. – Brande.

SAP'O-NULE, n.

An imperfect soap formed by the action of an alkali upon an essential oil.

SA'POR, n. [L.]

Taste; savor; relish; the power of affecting the organs of taste. There is some sapor in all aliments. – Brown.

SAP-OR-IF'IC, n. [Fr. saporifique; from L. sapor and facio, to make.]

Having the power to produce taste; producing taste. – Bailey. Johnson.

SAP-OR-OS'I-TY, n.

The quality of a body by which it excites the sensation of taste.

SAP-OR'OUS, a.

Having taste; yielding some kind of taste. – Bailey.

SA-PO'TA, n.

In botany, the specific name of a tree or plant of the genus Achras.

SAP-PA-DIL'LO-TREE, or SAP-A-DIL'LO-TREE, n.

The popular name of a tree of the genus Sloanea. – Fam. of Plants. Lee.

SAP'PARE, n.

A mineral or species of earth, the kyanite; called by Haüy, disthene. – Ure.